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Libya ready to forgive Qadhafi fighters: NTC chief
 [Dawn] Libya's new rulers are ready to forgive the forces of slain leader Muammar Qadaffy... who is now napping peacefully in the dirt... who battled rebels trying to topple his autocratic regime, National Transition Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Saturday. "In Libya we are able to absorb all. Libya is for all," Abdel Jalil said in Tripoli as he launched a national reconciliation conference organised by the NTC. "Despite what the army of the oppressor did to our cities and our villages, our brothers who fought against the rebels as the army of Qadaffy and we are ready to forgive them," he said. "We are able to forgive and tolerate," he added. The conference, the first of its kind since the NTC on October 23 declared the total liberation of Libya, was attended by delegates from the major Libyan tribes and ethnic groups, as well as from Qatar and Tunisia. Libya's new interim Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib echoed Abdel Jalil. "National reconciliation is an essential condition to build the constitutional institutions of a state," he told the conference. "The future cannot be built with Dire RevengeĀ as a base." A statement issued last month said the new government will help efforts by the NTC "to achieve national reconciliation" in Libya. It will also strive to rebuild the army and the security forces and promote "the integration of interested citizens into these institutions," said the statement. Posted by: Fred 2011-12-11 |
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